02-20-1979 Letter of Instructions No.

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February 20, 1979

LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 816
TO : The Minister of National Defense
The minister of Local Government and
Community Development
The Chief of Staff
Armed Forces of the Philippines
The Chief Constabulary
Director-General, INP
The Chairman
Task Force Anti-Gambling
SUBJECT : To exclude certain prohibited games under Presidential Decree No. 1602
WHEREAS, it is the intent of the Presidential Decree No. 1602 to discourage and prohibit gambling not regulated or
sanctioned under existing laws;
WHEREAS, there is need to exclude therefrom certain games like domino, bingo, poker when not played with five
cards stud, cuajo, pangguingue and mahjong when exclusively intended for parlor games or for home entertainment;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby order that the games of
domino, bingo, poker when not played with five cards stud, cuajo, pangguingue and mahjong, provided that they are
played as parlor games or for home entertainment; and Provided Further, That they are not played in places
habitually used for gambling and the betting is not disguised to defeat the intent of Presidential Decree No. 1602, are
hereby exempted. cdtai
Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-nine.